World of Darkness
The World of Darkness is much like our world, but it is darker, more devious and more conspiratorial — an aesthetic we call “Gothic-Punk”. The dichotomy between the rich and the poor, the influential and the weak, and the powerful and the powerless is much more pronounced than in the real world. Decadence, cynicism, and corruption are common. Humans are unwitting victims or pawns of vast secret organizations of supernatural creatures. Vampires, werewolves, and mages (among others) struggle with internal factionalism and against other species in secret wars of intrigue for control.
The World of Darkness (sometimes “WoD”) was first developed in 1991 with the release of Vampire: The Masquerade. It has reached hundreds of millions of people through thousands of books published in a wide variety of languages, as well as via a prime-time television show, multiple well-regarded video games, and even World of Darkness-focused conventions. Onyx Path Publishing offers dozens of role-playing game, fiction, art, and clothing products for the World of Darkness, as well as helping to re-release hundreds of original books through PDF and print-on-demand.
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Vampire: The Masquerade
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Wraith: The Oblivion
Changeling: The Dreaming
Originally posted by Eddy on the V20 Blog As I mentioned yesterday, I’m working on the bloodline appendix. As a reminder, here’s the parameters I came up with on this section: Bloodlines and variations we aren’t addressing are the Laibon and the Kuei-Jin (including the Bushi and the Gaki). They were expanded in separate books … Read more
Originally posted by Shane on the V20 Blog They say a picture is worth a thousand words and we could not agree more. Vampire: The Masquerade broke the 4th wall so to speak in a way that was and remains unparalleled. While the style, mood, and the Gothic punk themes from the content we provided … Read more
Originally posted by Eddy at the V20 Blog As Justin has mentioned, V20 is going to have an appendix containing nearly all of the bloodlines in Masquerade. Right now, this “appendix” is looking to be close to a hundred pages, so I’m essentially developing a small book inside of a larger book. And IT’S ALL … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog What I’m working on today is a bit sticky. Dodge. It’s a valid part of an RPG combat system, but as a standalone Ability, it doesn’t fit the model of what the other Abilities are designed to do. I’ve never liked Dodge as an Talent. It always … Read more
A big one this time, and only a partial chapter at that! Here we cover the basic walkthrough of character creation, to jog your memory (or to introduce you if you’re one of the newcomers just stepping into the World of Darkness). In particular, note some of the rewritten material on the clan synopses that … Read more
We know that there are a number of forums, lists and community destinations that people are discussing all matter of things involving V20 and we’re doing our best to keep tabs on as many of them as possible. So with that in mind we wanted to help provide a destination and have added a new … Read more
If you’ve been watching the #v20 Twitter tag, you’ll see that I was a bit concerned about the word count for the Brujah spread. It weighed in at about 1600 words, which is a lot for a two-page spread that’s going to feature some marquee art. Rich suggested paring it down a bit, so I’m … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog The Brujah spread is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1c2ECeJ5_wk9z2AZTY2j3NeSAldwtOeOvi0ZLQuajFSc The rules chapter is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sQl4Ludel05aEauCMyu1PHOiDaGlN1Vc8JHDLGUpqAQ Feel free to propagate those URLs. And please remember to offer feedback as discussed here. Thanks, and good Storytelling!
So how does this Open Development angle work, anyhow? Keep an eye on the blogs and forums to get the best sense of when a new dev doc becomes available. We’re eventually going to place a widget somewhere to aggregate them, but we’ll roll that out as Web Cell completes it. Development is an ongoing … Read more
Well, now that we’ve announced that we’re doing a 20th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, I just want to take a few minutes to say hello to all you old faithfuls (and maybe a handful of new converts as well). Ever since we started talking about doing this, our intent has always been to make the book … Read more